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Plot and Casting Details for 25th James Bond Film Announced
Bond 25 Finally Moving Forward (Again) The 25th installment in the James Bond film franchise has been somewhat in limbo for the past few months. Mostly due to the departure of writer/director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) back in August over “creative differences“. Thankfully, a capable writer/director is taking…
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Bloomberg Stand Firm By China Spy Chip Allegations
Bloomberg Stand Firm By China Spy Chip Allegations Earlier this month, media company Bloomberg issued a rather startling story. In it, they suggested that microscopic chips had been secretly implanted into a number of computer systems at Apple, Amazon and Super Micro. The chips were reportedly able to give Chinese…
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Amazon And Super Micro Call For Spy Chip Story Retraction
Amazon And Super Micro Call For Spy Chip Story Retraction You may recall how a little over a month ago Bloomberg broke a story that many computers at Amazon, Apple and Super Micro had been infected with a spy chip. The chip said to be of Chinese origin, was reportedly…
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Supermicro, Amazon, Apple and China Dispute Spy Chip Claims
Companies Refute Bloomberg Report Claims Following Bloomberg’s report revealing a spy chip discovery embedded in Supermicro server motherboards, the companies involved in the article speak out to refute the news outlet’s claim. Not just Supermicro, but Amazon and Apple as well. What Does Amazon Say About the Report? Amazon completely…
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Pencil-tip Sized Spy Chip Discovered in US Company Servers
Issue Affects Almost 30 Major US Companies An astounding new report from Bloomberg reveals how Chinese spies have infiltrated US company servers with a microchip barely the size of a pencil tip. Even more impressive than its small size is how the chip is even in server motherboards to begin…
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Google’s China Search Engine Links To Phone Numbers
Google has been working in conjunction with the Chinese government to provide a search engine that would be compatible in filtering out the content which is not allowed by the government. As you might be aware, China has rather strict rules regarding what is and isn’t allowed on their internet.…
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Geek Squad Staff Were Paid FBI Agents Spying On Customers
Geek Squad In the US, a popular source for PC repairs for the masses was available in Geek Squad. The company, usually ran from locations such as ‘Best Buys’ offered people the opportunity to bring in their computers to be diagnosed and/or fixed. While the company has been subject to…
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Facebook Forbids the Use of User Data for Surveillance
Last October, an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that a company called Geofeedia had analysed data provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to supply the police in Ferguson with surveillance information. That created a lot of uproars and only Twitter overhauled its policies to try and stop…
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Intelligence Report Suggests Edward Snowden Could be a Spy
The talk of Edward Snowden is so well known that it has even been turned into a biopic, eponymously titled “Snowden”: the former NSA employee stole confidential documents from the US intelligence agency, released them to journalists from Hong Kong, and fled to Russia, where he currently resides under amnesty.…
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New Spy Malware Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones
It is the kind of stuff one only used to see in spy movies but researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University have demonstrated how a piece of headphone can be turned into a microphone and be used to snoop on an unsuspecting user via malware. The idea is to show…
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Security Team Prove That Your Monitor Can Be Hacked at DefCon!
Cyber security awareness is at an all-time high, with governments and organisations investigating and researching both new ways to monitor users and bypass security features while some are still looking at reinforcing and creating new methods to protect people from nefarious hackers. Two such people as Ang Cui and Jatin…
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Be Warned About Snoopers with the Introspection Engine
When you pick up your phone, you can have anyone from your work to your friends and children talking to you from miles or even countries away. The problem is that you often don’t have the reassurance that they are the only ones listening into your call. This was made…
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Lincolns “Connectivity” Takes Luxury Car Status to an Extreme
Cars have a single purpose, getting you from A to B. Sometimes you do want to enjoy the journey a little more so you splash out on a nicer car, a concept that goes to the extreme in the line of luxury vehicles, something Lincolns new SUV concept titled the “Connectivity”…
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